
53: The uselessness of electric cars, with Andrew Orlowski
Last Orders - a spiked podcast
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Electric Vehicles
There is nothing wrong with renewables. They're great in a lot of ways, and similarly, solar panels have come on massively since the government effectively gave me some free solar panels over 10 years ago. And I think we will get there with this stuff. What people don't realize about electric vehicles is that they're going to require Britain to roughly treble the amount of electricity it produces. We can't produce enough at the moment for our current needs. The only way to get close to it is by having a massive investment in nuclear. It has to be effectively nuclear power. So whatever we do, we need to be investing big time in nuclear power. Everyone knows it's expensive. But
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